Vince Keenan wrote:>> For an in-depth look at this subject, I'd recommend
Woody Haut's HEARTBREAK> AND VINE. He focuses specifically on the work noir
writers did for Hollywood> and how it reflects on their literary output. I
don't agree with Haut on> everything, but he always knows whereof he
speaks.

I'd recommend this book too, but would advise readers to be
on the lookout for typos and howlers, eg Haut says that
Samuel Goldwyn tried to lure Chandler to MGM in 1946. However
Goldwyn had had no connections with MGM since 1923. To be
fair to Haut, the various Chandler bios are confused on this
- and maybe Chandler himself thought Goldwyn was at MGM - but
it does seem unlikely that Goldwyn would try to lure Chandler
to work for a studio with which he had broken off relations
years before. On the same page Ophuls' film noir is retitled
THE RESTLESS MOMENT instead of THE RECKLESS MOMENT, and, more
importantly, Haut later suggests that there is a Goodis novel
called RAVING BEAUTY. This produced a tremor of excitement -
why hadn't I heard of this? - but reference to the Goodis
biography (listed as a reference in Haut's bibliography)
confirms that this is an alternative title for SOMEBODY'S
DONE FOR, his last novel.

Caveat lector.

Nigel

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